Cognitive Dissonance in Saturated Fat Study


(Failed) #1

This is an example of why you need to read the whole study, not just the conclusion.

Here’s a study I found cited on a website https://steemit.com/vegan/@redpillvegan/ivor-cummins-worst-of-the-food-industry trying to discredit Ivor Cummins

Dietary lipids and blood cholesterol: quantitative meta-analysis of metabolic ward studies.
OBJECTIVE: To determine the quantitative importance of dietary fatty acids and dietary cholesterol to blood concentrations of total, low density lipoprotein, and high density lipoprotein cholesterol. DESIGN: Meta-analysis of metabolic ward studies of solid food diets in healthy volunteers. SUBJECTS: 395 dietary experiments (median duration 1 month) among 129 groups of individuals. RESULTS: Isocaloric replacement of saturated fats by complex carbohydrates for 10% of dietary calories resulted in blood total cholesterol falling by 0.52 (SE 0.03) mmol/l and low density lipoprotein cholesterol falling by 0.36 (0.05) mmol/l. Isocaloric replacement of complex carbohydrates by polyunsaturated fats for 5% of dietary calories resulted in total cholesterol falling by a further 0.13 (0.02) mmol/l and low density lipoprotein cholesterol falling by 0.11 (0.02) mmol/l. Similar replacement of carbohydrates by monounsaturated fats produced no significant effect on total or low density lipoprotein cholesterol. Avoiding 200 mg/day dietary cholesterol further decreased blood total cholesterol by 0.13 (0.02) mmol/l and low density lipoprotein cholesterol by 0.10 (0.02) mmol/l.

CONCLUSIONS: In typical British diets replacing 60% of saturated fats by other fats and avoiding 60% of dietary cholesterol would reduce blood total cholesterol by about 0.8 mmol/l (that is, by 10-15%), with four fifths of this reduction being in low density lipoprotein cholesterol.


Please note that they replaced carbohydrates with fats during the study. The conclusion, however does not match the actual study.


(Bob M) #2

They are using this study to try to discredit Ivor? He must be having fun with this one!


(Todd Allen) #3

Perhaps the link contains clues to a source of cognitive dissonance?


(Bob M) #4

That Red Pill Vegan guy is slightly crazy.


(Failed) #5

I just found another study that ended up concluding that the group lost more weight on LCHF than LFHC, but the title is kinda off-putting:

A low‐carbohydrate diet is more effective in reducing body weight than healthy eating in both diabetic and non‐diabetic subjects

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1464-5491.2007.02290.x


(Bob M) #6

That is a crazy title. If low carb is more effective at reducing body weight, then might it not be “healthier” than whatever “healthy” eating is? :blush:


#7

That title is hilarious.


(Bacon is a many-splendoured thing) #8

Well, obviously, Bob, saturated fat clogs our arteries and kills us! I’m surprised you don’t know that . . . :grin:

And from this, the scientific conclusion is that we should drink Drano to clean out our arteries!! :rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

#NOTDEADYET


#9

I think the science has progressed since 1997.

Isn’t Oxford in the UK a vegan stronghold?

Maybe not.

In the very least it is a nesting site for epidemiologists: https://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/team

Main author looks like a nice chap https://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/team/robert-clarke

It would be a foolhardy vegan to take Ivor to task. There is something suspect about the steem web site as well.It would seem it courts controversy and trends. That vegan tried that discrediting article about 2 years ago. He is probably in a coma now, or on a carnivore diet.


(Failed) #10

When you have a minute, would you mind adding the author to a new post in Show Me the Science / Authors’ Conflicts of Interest and Affiliations?

If we all contribute, this category can be a great resource for everyone.

The instructions are here.